Smoke

Here's an interesting statistic I just ran across in a recent Wired article.

From the CDC web site:

Cigarette smoking causes about one of every five deaths in the United States each year.

Cigarette smoking is estimated to cause the following:

• More than 480,000 deaths annually (including deaths from secondhand smoke)

That figure—480,000 deaths per year over two years—is very nearly to the total of deaths in the U.S. over the same period from COVID-19.

Yet there are people who continue to smoke, and there are people who continue to avoid simple procedures that dramatically reduce the danger of COVID.

Go figure.

[I smoked for a long time myself but I hopped right on the vaccine.]